Dracula’s Castle Awaits
Castlevania — known in Japan as Akumajô Dracula (“Devil’s Castle Dracula”) — is Konami’s gothic action platformer series spanning from 1986 to the modern era. For 15 years on classic hardware it defined how video games could evoke atmosphere through tight gameplay and unforgettable music. Few series have so thoroughly colonised the pop-culture imagination of an entire generation of players.
From Simon Belmont’s first whip crack in 1986 to Alucard’s labyrinthine castle in Symphony of the Night (1997), Castlevania explored gothic horror, European mythology, and the very limits of the hardware it ran on. The series birthed an entire genre — the “Metroidvania” — and produced some of the finest music ever composed for a video game.
Series Retrospective
Slope’s Game Room 2023 documentary — the complete Castlevania history.
Sections
Origins in 1986 through the NES era, 16-bit peak, and the birth of Metroidvania. Illustrated timeline.
Full catalogue from Castlevania (1986) to Symphony of the Night — box art, platforms, descriptions.
The composers and directors behind the series: Yamashita, Yamane, Adachi, Igarashi.
Deep-dive into Super Castlevania IV — the SNES masterpiece that defined the 16-bit era.
13 curated YouTube videos: speedruns, OSTs, longplays, and retrospective documentaries.
Box art, gameplay screenshots, and logo assets from across the classic era.